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AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

08-17-2009, 05:10 PM

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

It's taken quite a while, but AMD has finally delivered support for the Linux 2.6.29 kernel within their Catalyst driver. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel...

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Seems to work OK in Gentoo with kernel 2.6.30-r5. Resizing/maximizing problem still there. The mplayer (gl backend) GUI corruption in KDE4 with desktop effects enabled problems seem to have been fixed though; haven't seen any menus and buttons in SMPlayer going missing/replaced with garbage yet.

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No change with Xv+Composite, but one thing is cool. I ran Street Fighter 4 benchmark with wine 1.1.26. Before my computer froze when I changed the resolution of the test, now it is ok. Still not playable (image is flickering) but it is a good step forward.

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No change with Xv+Composite, but one thing is cool. I ran Street Fighter 4 benchmark with wine 1.1.26. Before my computer froze when I changed the resolution of the test, now it is ok. Still not playable (image is flickering) but it is a good step forward.

What problems do you experience with Xv+Composite?

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Well, like with the 9.7, the image get blurred when the window of the video player is on the left of the screen and the video is black after minimizing the video player (vlc and smplayer tested). To get the image back I just have to resize the window, so there is no real problem with Xv+composite, I just wanted to say that it didn't get better. Anyway the little improvement in wine is cool.

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Ho-hum. No XvBA support. So glad I switched to Nvidia for my HTPC. My 780g board is now relegated to the living room web browser 'net top'. Glad to see AMD making progress, but the lack of accelerated video support on par with VDPAU is really just sad at this point. Just sad. I'll say it again. Sad.

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It's taken quite a while, but AMD has finally delivered support for the Linux 2.6.29 kernel within their Catalyst driver. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel...

After a couple of minor adjustments to my system to ditch the default Fedora setup for radeon (blacklist, mkinitrd, etc.) I managed to install the driver and it worked for almost A WHOLE MINUTE before hanging the system. NICE. FANTASTIC. AWESOME.

Okay, but don't get your hopes too high :/ although tropics improved quite a lot, but that because I've got errors in rendering :/ whole benchmark was missing water and screen was flickering before I've turned aa on so something is wrong with this drivers.

As for hon, well i've measured it durning a game play, so it's not really reliable because I wasn't watching the fps all the time, but I think there is a little improvement.

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okay, I've tested few things with tropics and found out that first run gives me like 0-4fps and screen corruption (blue and black lanes). But when I change to aax2, everything is looking fine, only water is missing... BUT... when I turn on aax4 or more everything is fine ;o no screen flickering, no corruption, water is perfect... ;x it has to be driver thing :x